David and Ann Brown Distinguished Fellow

Trent England is the David and Ann Brown Distinguished Fellow at the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, where he previously served as executive vice president. He is also the founder and executive director of Save Our States, which educates Americans about the importance of the Electoral College. England is a producer of the feature-length documentary “Safeguard: An Electoral College Story.” He has appeared three times on Fox & Friends and is a frequent guest on media programs from coast to coast. He is the author of Why We Must Defend the Electoral College and a contributor to The Heritage Guide to the Constitution and One Nation Under Arrest: How Crazy Laws, Rogue Prosecutors, and Activist Judges Threaten Your Liberty. His writing has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Times, Hillsdale College's Imprimis speech digest, and other publications. Trent formerly hosted morning drive-time radio in Oklahoma City and has filled for various radio hosts including Ben Shapiro. A former legal policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation, he holds a law degree from The George Mason University School of Law and a bachelor of arts in government from Claremont McKenna College.

David and Ann Brown Distinguished Fellow

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Next week, the Cato Institute will host two leading legal scholars in a debate about the merits of the Electoral College. Tara Ross, author of Enlightened Democracy: The Case for the Electoral College (it's in our bookstore), will face off against Maryland State Senator Jamie Raskin, who is also a professor of constitutional law at American University's Washington School of Law. Tara has also written a forthcoming article for the Federalist Society's journal, Engage, on the "Legal and Logistical Ramifications of the National Popular Vote Plan."

Save Our States is excited about any and all opportunities to discuss and debate the Electoral College, especially against Dr. John Koza's proposed "National Popular Vote" plan. The supposed reform proposal is an end-run around the constitutional amendment process by way of an interstate compact. That's clever, no doubt about it. It may even be constitutional, though legal questions remain. But as one former NPV cosponsor-turned-opponent says, "An interstate compact is just not a robust way to build a system as important as the presidential election system." It leads to a variety of potential absurdities, including a total inability to deal with recounts and the potential for state-versus-state shenanigans in close elections.

Claremont Graduate University Professor Michael Uhlmann outlined some of the disconcerting possibilities in the New York Post: "Rx for national vote-count chaos."

David and Ann Brown Distinguished Fellow

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